my $HTML2PS = '/usr/local/bin/html2ps -L'; my $PS2PDF = '/usr/bin/ps2pdf'; # First create an HTML file that I want to print my $h2p = " "; my $file_to_ps = "$plot_file_base".'_to_ps.htm'; open (FH,">$file_to_ps") or die "cannot open $file_to_ps: $!\n"; print FH $h2p; close(FH); # Then create a ps file my $file_ps = "$plot_file_base".'.ps'; system "$HTML2PS $file_to_ps > $file_ps"; #And finally convert it to PDF my $file_pdf = "$plot_file_base".'.pdf'; system "$PS2PDF $file_ps $file_pdf"; unlink $file_to_ps; unlink $file_ps;